Tehran, Jan. 24 -- Iran's Supreme National Security Council recently instructed newspaper editors and online media managers to stop publishing independent reports on the protest deaths, and to not interview any bereaved families.
The directive, issued during a meeting with managers of domestic media outlets instructed them to explicitly use only figures released by the state, according to Iran International.
The measure is said to be aimed at preventing any broader scrutiny or disclosure regarding the scale of the killings carried out by security personnel, reportedly ordered directly by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had earlier vowed to crush the protests with all means available.
As per the report, the directive was delive...